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EURI:-KA srm:-er TEXT PUBLISHING THE BIRTH O F Special Book Offer THE BIRTH OF SYDNEY Edited and introduced by Tim Flannery SYDNEY!:DITtO AHD INT RODUCED BY This is a book to treasure even if you come from Adelaide or Perth. Tim Flannery's The Birth of Sydney is a keyhole on Australia's formative history, TIM FLANNERY concentrating on the early days in Sydney, but in the process illuminating parts of Australian history that have been hidden, lost or forgotten. It's also a rollicking tale of a particular city. Here are the stories that made the city of Sydney: the riotous debauchery of the convicts as lightning crackled above, the great Eora leader Bennelong joking with Arthur Phillip moments before the governor was speared, the enigmatic love of William Dawes and Patyegarang inscribed in a forgotten diary, all the brutality, humour and unpredictable tenderness of a frontier city. Thanks to Text Publishing, Emel<a Street has 15 copies of The Birth of Sydney to give away. 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You might add a nod to Because it is summer and irony when reading what because summer allows a Durcan-or any poet-writes. corner of leisure, there is But irony's not a bad caution poetry to read-in unusual at the start of a new venture- quantity. Poetry doesn't bow an acknowledgement that low before institutions, but it complexity goes ann-in-arm with hope. does pay them the courtesy of scrutiny. The essay We begin the year 2000, Eureka Street's tenth year and books in our summer reading sections are of publication, by taking a fresh look at the necessary variously diverting (on food and climbing trees), baggage we carry with us as we move into new informative (on Catholic education) and provocative territory, new time. This month-and indeed through (on prime ministers). And when you have finished out 2000-it will be Australian institutions that with them you can retreat into the riddling maze of occupy us.